Annual drive ended Friday but monetary donations are still accepted.
According to City Attorney Robert Fournier, the city's 'gross deviation' is over the allowed limit. The allowed limit is 10 percent and the city is at 13.1 percent.
On Nov. 21, the Sarasota City Commission will consider a proposal to install surveillance cameras along Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
Sarasota County commissioners unanimously approved Randall Reid to be the next Sarasota County Administrator. Reid is currently the county manager in Alachua County.
Sarasota County voters will decide on Jan. 31, 2012, if county commissioners will have three, four-year term limits.
Last week the Sarasota County Commissioners selected four finalists for the county administrator position.
Neither costs for the Main Street improvements nor the survey results was presented last night.
The firm will look at cost-saving techniques for the district. On Tuesday, the district is hosting an open house for the public to ask reps from MGT of America questions about the audit.
The draft for 'Step Up: End Homelessness in Sarasota County Now' will be released Dec. 21, the date of the Longest Night Homeless Memorial Vigil.
The city is hosting a workshop about downtown streetscape improvements at 4 p.m. Monday. Later, the county is holding a meet and greet with county administrator finalists at 6 p.m.
The Republican presidential candidate and former CEO of Godfather's Pizza will be in Sarasota on Nov. 27 for the Sarasota County GOP Statesman of the Year Dinner.
By a near unanimous decision, the Sarasota County GOP voted to urge county commissioners to abide by term limits passed by voters in 1998.
The completion of Honore Avenue improvements between Fruitville and Bee Ridge roads will be celebrated at ribbon-cutting ceremony Nov. 17.
The grant is designed to facilitate voting for military/overseas voters.
The two-acre site is in the 5100 block of North Tamiami Trail, at the intersection with Mecca Drive.
City rules say if you sell hard liquor and have entertainment, you are a nightclub. However, the operators of the State Street Cookery and Lynch’s Pub & Grub say they are just restaurants that want to serve liquor and allow live music.
The Sarasota Public Art Committee has selected Dennis Kowal's "Fractured Migration" to be a downtown permanent fixture and winner of the 'Intersections' project. The city commission will have the final vote.
A group of citizens said county commissioners should be held to the term limits passed by voters in 1998. In 2005, a Sarasota judge ruled that enforcing term limits for county commissioners was unconstitutional.
Here are some school-related events in Sarasota County that honor veterans, from a Salute to Veterans at McIntosh Middle School Thursday to the annual Veterans Day Parade Friday in downtown Sarasota.
Sarasota County Commissioners narrowed their search for the county administrator post to four applicants.
Since 1999 the city has collected $837,134 in park impact fees, which are passed on to the county. During that same time, the county has spent $1,018,339 on park projects in the city.
We want to hear from you. Is Sarasota anti-business?
Last night the Sarasota City Commission voted 3-2 against a "fast-track" proposal that, if passed, would have results of zoning code conflicts always favor the developer/applicant.
In solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Sarasota will march on banks in downtown Sarasota on Saturday starting at 9:30 a.m.
Osprey Avenue between Mound Street and Bahia Vista Street will remain temporarily closed through February 2012 for the same construction project
The ordinance isn’t written yet, and a roomful of boaters says it doesn’t need to be.
On Tuesday afternoon hundreds came out to Sarasota's bayfront to protest Rick Scott and the Republican legislators.
Today parking meter rates in downtown Sarasota went from $0.50 to $1 an hour.
The anti-Gov. Rick Scott protest will be held from 4:30-6 p.m. at Sarasota's bayfront.
Barbour has been named the Statesman of the Year by the Republican Party of Sarasota County.
From 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. today, Occupy Sarasota protesters will be at Sarasota's bayfront by the Unconditional Surrender statue.
Commissioner Joe Barbetta suggests a $5 million revolving fund for economic incentives.
“Sports visitors of all kinds represent 9.3 percent of visitors,” said Sarasota County Convention and Visitors Bureau president Virginia Haley.
The county commission voted unanimously on Oct. 25 to accept a letter of intent from the FWC stipulating that an agreement had been reached.
'This is not just a rowing facility,' said commissioner Joe Barbetta. 'When we are done with this, this will be state of the art.'
County commissioners raise questions about ballooning costs for funding the BRT project.
County commissioners approved a letter of intent yesterday sent by the Fish and Wildlife Commission that would have the FWC take over management of the gun range. The county hopes to have the range open again this weekend.
According to county documents, the county hopes that a Federal Transit Administration program would pay up to $75 million of the project's cost.
Sarasota is one of five locations throughout the state selected by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) to participate in a mooring field pilot program.
A record crowd came to watch the charter review board consider abolishing grants and limits on petition drives.